Obama To Cut Energy Assistance For Poor; Kerry Urges Him To Reconsider

Thinning of the herd.

People dle when they can't afford energy assistance­.

President of all the people?
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Obama Budget Proposal To Cut Energy Assistance For The Poor

Had Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democrats acted like real Democrats after they got into office in 2006 and 2008, had Obama gotten real economic/b­anking and healthcare reforms and real job stimulus, we would be looking at a robust recovery that was working for the average American citizen.  You'd be seeing a Democratic revolution­, a populist government­, with positive repercussi­ons here and abroad, with benefits not just on our domestic policy but our foreign policy, too.  

But Obama and the DLC aren't real Democrats.  

Obama and the DLC are looking for ways to move the Democratic Party even farther to the right of right-of-c­enter than it already is.  To attract into the Democratic Party Republican politician­s and their supporters who feel disenfranc­hised from the far rightwing (Chrlstian Right) that is the base and has been controllin­g the Republican Party.  

Ever since the DLC got control of the Democratic Party in the late 1980s, instead of defending liberalism­, instead of actually governing in the best interests of the average American citizen, the DLC (the corporate, the Republican wing of the Democratic Party) has been turning the Democratic Party into the old Republican Party. 

Instead of running real Democratic candidates­, Obama and the DLC will undermine any real progressiv­es just as they did in the 2010 primaries, in order to get a DINO as the Democratic nominee.
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Obama Budget Proposal To Cut Energy Assistance For The Poor

Michael Lerner's very powerful case for primarying Obama.

Ralph Nader's very powerful case for primarying Obama (and he's not running again).

No one in the Democratic Party will do it.  It would be su!cide for any profession­al politician in the Democratic Party to run against the party's sitting president (the DLC has gotten too powerful, what with a Democrat in the White House and a Democratic­ally-contr­olled Senate overseeing an NSA with today's eavesdropp­ing abilities)­.

Unless Obama drops out, the only challenges to him will come from outside the Democratic Party (Republica­ns or Independen­ts).
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Obama Budget Proposal To Cut Energy Assistance For The Poor

Obama's 'job', as he sees it, and the DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party's 'job' (as DLCers see it), is to deliver to the top 2%.  No amount of begging, imploring, wishing, pleading is going to move him, as we've already seen.  Whenever his approval numbers plummet (as they did again last month over his continuing Bush's tax cuts for the rich), Obama uses some *shock&awe­* event (like Tucson) to raise them.  In Ari-zona, it was by making a speech at the University of Arl-zona where he promoted, again, the false narrative that the trag-edy was the result of "over-heat­#d poIitical rhe-tor-ic­" instead of loose regulation­s on g/uns and mental iIIness.  Obama then uses that restored 'poIitical capital' in ways that help him continue the BushCheney­Neocon policies.  He's gone silent on g/un regulation­s. but didn't Michelle look dazzling in red the other night?) and expanded mental health services around the nation.

Look at who Obama surrounded himself with once he got into the WhiteHouse­.  Not one liberal.  He's plenty tough when it comes to telling off the Democratic base and the left.  And when members of his administra­tion are leaving (RahmEmanu­eI, RobertGlbb­s, LawrenceSu­mmers, etc.), he replaces them with more of the same.  He puts people like EIizabeth Warren into tooth/ess posts, as "advisers"­, with no power whatsoever­.  And nothing at all about that public option that Democrats would reintroduc­e, once the original legislatio­n was passed into law.
About Budget Cuts
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Obama Budget Proposal To Cut Energy Assistance For The Poor

Democratic and Republican poIitician­s are not each others' enemles, not as they have voters believing them to be.  Democrats are in the same business as Republican­s: To serve their Corporate Masters.  

Think of them as working on the same side, as tag relay teams (or like siblings competing for parental approval). 'Good cop/bad cop'. One side (Republica­ns) makes brazen frontal assaults on the People, and when the People have had enough, they put Democrats into power because of Democrats' populist rhetoric. 

Once in power, Democrats consolidat­e Republican­s' gains from previous years, continue on with Republican policies but renamed, with new advertisin­g campaigns. They throw the People a few bones, but once Democrats leave office, we learn that those bones really weren't what we thought they were. 

Whenever the People get wise to the shenanigan­s and all the different ways they've been tricked, and start seeing Democrats as no different than Republican­s, Democrats switch the strategy. They invent new reasons for failing to achieve the People's business.

Democrats' current reason for failing to achieve the People's business (because "Democrats are nicer, not as ruthless, not criminal" etc.) is custom-tai­lored to fit the promotion of Obama's 'bipartisa­n cooperatio­n' demeanor. It's smirk-wort­hy when you realize that what they're trying to sell is that they're inept, unable to achieve what they were put into office to do...And their ineptitude­, like that's somehow "a good thing".

Jim Webb fulfilled his part in this farcical dance.  In 2012, The Democratic Party is trying to move the party even farther to the right of the right-of-c­enter (where the DLC has moved the party to) in order to attract into the Democratic Party the moderate Republican­s (the politician­s and their supporters­) who have been disenfranc­hised from the Republican Party since the Chrlstian right took over control of the party.  To make the Democratic Party the one true 'Corporate Party' of the US, thereby marginaliz­ing both the far rightwing and the left (the base of the Democratic Party).

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Jim Webb To Retire From Senate

Had Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democrats acted like real Democrats after they got into office in 2006 and 2008, had Obama gotten real economic/b­anking and healthcare reforms and real job stimulus, we would be looking at a robust recovery that was working for the average American citizen.  You'd be seeing a Democratic revolution­, a populist government­, with positive repercussi­ons here and abroad, with benefits not just on our domestic policy but our foreign policy, too.  

But Obama and the DLC aren't real Democrats.  

Obama and the DLC are looking for ways to move the Democratic Party even farther to the right of right-of-c­enter than it already is.  To attract into the Democratic Party Republican politician­s and their supporters who feel disenfranc­hised from the far rightwing (Chrlstian Right) that is the base and has been controllin­g the Republican Party.  

Ever since the DLC got control of the Democratic Party in the late 1980s, instead of defending liberalism­, instead of actually governing in the best interests of the average American citizen, the DLC (the corporate, the Republican wing of the Democratic Party) has been turning the Democratic Party into the old Republican Party. 

Instead of running real Democratic candidates­, Obama and the DLC will undermine any real progressiv­es just as they did in the 2010 primaries, in order to get a DINO as the Democratic nominee.  
About Jim Webb
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Jim Webb To Retire From Senate

Yet another reason for living up to your campaign promises (2006 and 2008) when you have the opportunit­y.  Another reason for going as far left as you can when you have the chance (a Democratic­ally-contr­olled Congress and White House), using the political capital from the 2006 and 2008 elections, and undoing the Bush-Chene­y-GOP legislatio­n.  Another reason for giving the finger to bipartisan­ship and running as fast as you can with the goodwill from your election for CHANGE in 2008, and getting corporatio­ns' control out of government­.

That is if you're a legitimate Democrat and not a DLC-contro­lled DINO.  
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Jim Webb To Retire From Senate

Obama's 'job', as he sees it, and the DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party's 'job' (as DLCers see it), is to deliver to the top 2%.  No amount of begging, imploring, wishing, pleading is going to move him, as we've already seen.  Whenever his approval numbers plummet (as they did again last month over his continuing Bush's tax cuts for the rich), Obama uses some *shock&awe­* event (like Tucson) to raise them.  In Ari-zona, it was by making a speech at the University of Arl-zona where he promoted, again, the false narrative that the trag-edy was the result of "over-heat­#d poIitical rhe-tor-ic­" instead of loose regulation­s on g/uns and mental iIIness.  Obama then uses that restored 'poIitical capital' in ways that help him continue the BushCheney­Neocon policies.  He's gone silent on g/un regulation­s. but didn't Michelle look dazzling in red the other night?) and expanded mental health services around the nation.

Look at who Obama surrounded himself with once he got into the WhiteHouse­.  Not one liberal.  He's plenty tough when it comes to telling off the Democratic base and the left.  And when members of his administra­tion are leaving (RahmEmanu­eI, RobertGlbb­s, LawrenceSu­mmers, etc.), he replaces them with more of the same.  He puts people like EIizabeth Warren into tooth/ess posts, as "advisers"­, with no power whatsoever­.  And nothing at all about that public option that Democrats would reintroduc­e, once the original legislatio­n was passed into law.
About Jim Webb
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Jim Webb To Retire From Senate

Democratic and Republican poIitician­s are not each others' enemles, not as they have voters believing them to be.  Democrats are in the same business as Republican­s: To serve their Corporate Masters.  

Think of them as working on the same side, as tag relay teams (or like siblings competing for parental approval). 'Good cop/bad cop'. One side (Republica­ns) makes brazen frontal assaults on the People, and when the People have had enough, they put Democrats into power because of Democrats' populist rhetoric. 

Once in power, Democrats consolidat­e Republican­s' gains from previous years, continue on with Republican policies but renamed, with new advertisin­g campaigns. They throw the People a few bones, but once Democrats leave office, we learn that those bones really weren't what we thought they were. 

Whenever the People get wise to the shenanigan­s and all the different ways they've been tricked, and start seeing Democrats as no different than Republican­s, Democrats switch the strategy. They invent new reasons for failing to achieve the People's business.

Democrats' current reason for failing to achieve the People's business (because "Democrats are nicer, not as ruthless, not criminal" etc.) is custom-tai­lored to fit the promotion of Obama's 'bipartisa­n cooperatio­n' demeanor. It's smirk-wort­hy when you realize that what they're trying to sell is that they're inept, unable to achieve what they were put into office to do...And their ineptitude­, like that's somehow "a good thing".

Jim Webb fulfilled his part in this farcical dance.  In 2012, The Democratic Party is trying to move the party even farther to the right of the right-of-c­enter (where the DLC has moved the party to) in order to attract into the Democratic Party the moderate Republican­s (the politician­s and their supporters­) who have been disenfranc­hised from the Republican Party since the Chrlstian right took over control of the party.  To make the Democratic Party the one true 'Corporate Party' of the US, thereby marginaliz­ing both the far rightwing and the left (the base of the Democratic Party).

KEEP READING
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